The Obama administration is considering requiring all cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to have brakes that can override gas pedals to prevent sudden acceleration problems like those that led to reports of deaths and the recall of millions of Toyotas, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Congress on Tuesday.

Republicans in Congress offered a tepid response Monday to President Obama's call to start a new round of bipartisan talks on health care, arguing that the current Democratic legislation is unsalvageable.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will meet today with European security ministers to urge them to improve screening at airports and to give the U.S. more information about airline passengers.

One year to the day after his euphoric inauguration, President Obama will spend today trying to rescue his legislative agenda after an election upset in Massachusetts that jeopardizes his top domestic priority, health care.

For the first time in 114 years, the Senate on Thursday will be voting on the day before Christmas, as opponents of health care legislation extend the debate in the hopes of building public opposition and ultimately derailing the bill.

The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation Monday in a bid to remove the largest remaining obstacle in the way of Christmas-week passage of the measure.